Kristen E. Vincent

is the owner and artisan of Prayerworks Studio, which specializes in making handcrafted prayer beads. She speaks widely on prayer and prayer beads and enjoys leading retreats. Kristen is the author of A Bead and a Prayer: A Beginner’s Guide to Protestant Prayer Beads. Kristen's blog is abeadnaprayer.wordpress.com.

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A year ago I gathered with some students around a table in the student center of Oxford College at Emory. Through the school’s Interfaith Council I had issued an invitation to come and talk. The topic? Prayer beads in various traditions.
For more than twenty years I have collected rosaries and other types of prayer beads. I thought they were beautiful and loved... Keep Reading→

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